4.671 | Spring 2016 | Undergraduate, Graduate

Nationalism, Internationalism, and Globalism in Modern Art

Calendar

Undergraduates taking 4.671 will have weekly reading reports for sessions 3–10, which will be due prior to each session.

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (4.670)
1 Introduction (syllabus review, discussion of handouts / presentations)  
2 Nation, Word, Nomad (units, maps, movable agents – history)  
3 Paris (world pictures, materials, infrastructures – philosophy)  
4 Venice (empire into nation, cosmopolite – political philosophy)  
5 London (arts, manufactures, empire – anthropology)  
6 Weimar / Moscow (International Cold War – architecturology)  
7 São Paulo / Brasilia / Africa (from Cold War to postcolonial nationalisms – anthropophagology)  
8 Osaka / Asia (orientalism and globalization – literary theory) Topic abstract and proposed bibliography due in class
9 Documenta / Manifesta (cosmopolitanism, take 2 – transnationalism)  
10 Joahnnesburg / UAE (cities, branding, globalization theory – sociology)  
11 Seminar research / presentation workshops  
12 Seminar research / presentation workshops (cont.)

Oral presentation of research paper topic and research to date due in class

Research Paper due one week after Session 12

Course Info

Departments
As Taught In
Spring 2016
Learning Resource Types
Written Assignments
Presentation Assignments